Ministry Of Education

Ministry Of Education — the Government of Ethiopia Ministry of Education — operates as a foreign government entity that acts as a sub-recipient on federal grants from the Department of Agriculture and the Department of State, supporting school feeding and education capacity-building programs in Ethiopia. The vendor has no prime contract awards and does not bid on federal procurements; it participates in federal grant work exclusively as a subordinate partner to international implementing organizations, principally the United Nations World Food Programme.

All seven sub-grant awards recorded in the source are routed through the United Nations World Food Programme as prime grantee, with the Ethiopian Ministry of Education acting as a cooperating partner or implementing partner at the regional level. The combined dollar volume across all awards totals $1.5 million obligated. Activity is recent and modest — one award in 2021, then a gap through 2024, followed by four awards in 2025 and three in 2026, with the most recent award dated February 24, 2026. The Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service Food for Education grant program accounts for five of the eight awards (75% coverage by count), with the Department of State Bureau of African Affairs contributing one. The remaining two awards lack explicit prime-grantee attribution in the source.

Scope of work centers on national school feeding program implementation and education system strengthening. Named activities include capacity development for school feeding infrastructure, coordination of food distribution to pre-primary and primary school children in food-insecure regions, procurement of pulses and school garden supplies, technical training for regional education bureaus and school stakeholders, data digitalization for real-time school-level monitoring, and support for establishing a national school feeding law. Work is performed across multiple regions of Ethiopia, including Oromia and Afar, with the ministry functioning as a coordinating and implementing entity in partnership with the World Food Programme rather than as an independent service provider or prime recipient. The award pattern and modest scale indicate that the Ministry of Education participates in these federal grants as a government-to-government implementing arm of international donor-funded school nutrition and education initiatives, not as a commercial or competitive contractor in the federal marketplace.